Look@LAN Network Monitor

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Publisher's Description

From the developer Advanced Network Monitor, it allows you to monitor your net in few clicks. Extremely easy to use and very fast in discovering your network's active nodes. Full of relevant features such as: auto-detect of network configuration, monitoring, reporting, trapping, statistics and graphs, network tree view, network log, proof single node scan, os detection

This simple, elegant network exploration program has been totally hosed by the authors, in pursuit of a new product called Fingbo. Too bad. Look@Lan was simple and easy to use, all you really needed for a home network. Fingbo is worse than useless.

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It would have been nice to have side-by-side bar graphs of LAN activity for selected IPs, but it would be nice to win the lottery too!

Summary

I was looking for a small, easy to use program to monitor the activity on my home LAN. This does the job quite well for me. It has many more features than I will ever need, but they don't get in the way for a simple use. If you need more power, it's there for you when you do. Well done piece of software. And this version is free. Sophistocated users will surely want to investigate the retail versions of the newer product line.

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